The World Health Organization yesterday underscored the need to shorten the country’s turnaround time for coronavirus disease 2019 testing, but this must be coupled with “speedy” contact tracing.

The number of workers at a construction site in Taguig who tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 has reached 385, the city government said yesterday.

Given all the COVID related bad news that came out of Cebu City in the last two weeks, the last thing I needed to hear was about the 64-year-old mother of a friend who ended up in a jor hospital in Cebu City with flu like symptoms.

Cagayan Valley has recorded a spike in the number of coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 cases.

Remittances worldwide, especially those flowing into traditional labor-sending countries like the Philippines, will take a hit through a “country stigma” attached to workers coming from areas struggling to contain the spread of COVID-19, the Asian Development Bank said.